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The Christchurch City Mission s Christmas lunch attracts over a thousand visitors each year. (Video first published December 2019).
Christmas lunch will still be served at the Christchurch City Mission this year despite Auckland cancelling its event. The Auckland City Mission announced last Wednesday that its big Christmas lunch would be canned due to concerns about potential community transmission of Covid-19. About 1600 people attended the lunch last year. Five separate, smaller lunches would instead be held, a spokeswoman for Auckland City Mission said last week.
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Santa’s arrival goes down well with guests at last year’s annual Christmas Lunch in Christchurch. (File photo)